Adrian Lyne Quotes

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

Routine kills creative thought.

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.